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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

They have come as saviours of this
dictator riddled, corrupt, incompetent, poverty stricken continent and are busy
showing the clueless, work-shy locals how to put in infrastructure and how to
build office blocks, bridges and other impressive structures.

So you mustn’t do anything to offend
them. You must all follow the excellent example set by South Africa’s President
Jacob Zuma. He and his Government ensured that the Dalai Lama was not
given a visa to enter the country when he was invited to attend the 80th
birthday celebrations of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

This Tibetan,
Buddhist high priest has been living in exile for years and has been
hounded by the People’s Republic of China
ever since it took over his country.It
has done its best to ensure that he doesn’t get into countries it can easily kick
around.

And those are mostly in Africa.

A White friend, who travels a lot in Central and West Africa,
told me that whenever he has taken a flight in this part of the world recently
he has been just about the only nonChinaman on
the plane.

Of course the pay off for the little
yellow men is a lot more than just keeping Tibet’s
spiritual leader out of Africa.

Could it be minerals and other raw
materials tokeep the burgeoning Chinese economy on the up and up?
And will it mean that theChinese will one day make everything in the world while everybody else
is starving because that cut price, oriental competition has closed all the
factories where they earned a living?

YouAfricans
mustn’t deluded yourselves into thinking you can apply your normal job
reservation policy to these new colonialists.

In South Africa for instance
the Black Government has replaced Grand Apartheid, the previous White
Government’sWhites only policy, with Grand Black Economic Empowerment. This is
designed to ensure that Blacks outnumber every other race in Governmentand business
by 10to one or more.

But they dare not try that with the Chinese. My friend
tells me that on Chinese construction sites in West Africa you won’t
see a single Black. Everybody is Chinese, even down to the labourers
pushing wheel barrows full of cement.

So
however much they improve the infrastructure in your countries there are
billions ofChinamen who all have to be working
before they will make the slightest dent in your millions of unemployed Blacks.

That’s what happens, my fellow African’s, when you sell your soul. And I wonder how
much you leaders are getting out of this sale and whether you were happy to
take your fees in Renminbi or if you got it in Dollars.

You’ve been complaining for years about
what White Colonialism
did to your countries and your self esteem. So who will you blame now that the Chinese are doing the same thing all over again?

But as you
leaders have proved time again you don’t care a damn about what happens to your
subjects as long as you are alright living in your mansions and travelling the
world in your private jets.

As you might have gathered I live in South Africa and I wonder if you could ask our President if I could have permission to replace our Black cook, maid and gardener with Chinese because I’ve just invited President Hu Jintao to stay for a few days.

I’m worried that if I don’t do that he will be
insulted and that’s a risky thing to do to your Master.
And it could also be very bad for the development of our country.

It goes without saying that he won’t
have an entry problem like the Dalai Lama
because he doesn’t need a visa to visit one of the new outposts of the Chinese Empire.

Yours respectfully,

Jon

P.S.
I heard that women in China are flocking to
plastic surgeons to have their slit eyes made more Western
so presumably Africans will soon be forced to
have it done the other way round.

Friday, October 7, 2011

I see that Christianity
in one form or another is by far your biggest religion. You’ve got Catholics, Protestants,
Baptists, Evangelicals,
Latter-day Saints, Pentecostals
and goodness knows what other ones.

Out of a population of over
300-million, 75% of the people profess to be Christians so you
would think you would take the 10 Commandments prettyseriously.

And
the Lord said to Moses, Come up to Me in the mountain and be there, and
I will give you tablets of stone, with the law and the commandments
which I have written that you may teach them.Exodus 24. 12

Does that ring a bell anywhere? Have you guys
ever heard of that?

And then there’s this, He gave to Moses, when Hehad ceased communing with him on Mount Sinai,
the two tablets of theTestimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.Exodus 31. 18

You can’t get more sacred than that. But does it
mean anything to your so called essentially Christian
nation?

Those were God’s
rules that he personally wrote and he didn’t compile them just for fun. He
expected his followers to abide by them. But how many of you do?

Doesn’t it say in the Bible
that Thou shaltnot take the name of the Lord thyGod in vain.

That’s the third most important Commandment. And under this one it goes on to say,for the Lord will not hold him guiltlessthat takes his
name in vain.

You would think that this is the easiest of God’s 10 main requirements to uphold.

Well it looks as though you Christian Yanks have been
giving the Lord thy God the two
fingers regarding this for years. So it’s not difficult to imagine what you
have been doing to the other nine.

On news bulletins, in television programmes and
in films you hear it all the time. You are not a bit ashamed of taking the Lord’s name in vain on a grand scale.

Oh
my God!has become a national
saying.

It’s used on every kind of occasion to express
delight, surprise or even horror.

It must be far more well known in the US of A now than the actual Commandment
itself.

Has that got anything to do with the fact that
your country has got into such dire financial straights?

Monday, October 3, 2011

What a let down
that was. Your power has been
advertised recently all over the place as if you were some supernatural being who
could perform miracles for consumers.

The Times carried a whole page with your stern
looking image peering out of it and we were told, Ripped off? Fight back.Megan Power. Batting for you.

We were assured your Power Report in the Sunday Times each week would be championingour rights as consumers and exposing the bad.

Featured
this week it said, would bedefective
newcars, shoddy repair jobs and appalling service.

All very impressive. People must have rushed out
to get the paper in which you were going to tell all about how you sorted out
these rip off artists in no uncertain terms.

Perhaps I’m being a bit naïve. I always thought
the main purpose of a consumer column was to ensure, as far a possible, that
consumers got justice. And with the huge circulation of a paper, like the Sunday Times behind you, suppliers would be more likely
to come to heal rather than risk further bad publicity.

But that means they have to fear being
named.

That brings me to that let down Imentioned in the
beginning.

Your first report after that massive promotion in
The Times (the Sunday
Time’s little sister) consisted of alitanyofcomplaintsagainst SA’s top car brands and leading dealerships and involve
new, and mostly very expensive cars.

After that build up complainants had every reason
to believe that your power would
result in having their problems sorted out.

They must have got a shock because all you did
was to list a dozen anonymous complaints about nameless vehicles and dealers. If
that’s all the power you’ve got you should team up with Eskom. It also specialises in keeping people in the dark.

You told us things like how dealerships had
reneged on promises to replace aR275 000
car, after it was stolen while in for servicing; damaged a car worth R250 000
while in for repair; driven a customer’s vehicle into another one while it was
being serviced and done a shoddy repairand
so on.

BUT NOBODY WAS NAMED AND
SHAMED,Megan.

I know you are only as powerful as the paper your
work for so I have to asked: Hasn't theSunday Times got the guts to allow you to name all these dealers and top car brands?

Or is it that your power has been short circuited because your paper doesn’t want to
offend them in case they might cancel million rand, colour adverts in your
paper?

All you ended up doing was passing the buck. Your
article concluded by telling readers they could take their grievances to the Retail Motor Industry Organisation, but only if the
supplier is one of its members. Last time I contacted them I was told to pay a
fee of several hundred rand for the privileged of lodging my complaint.

You also suggested the Motor
Industry Ombud or the National Consumer
Commission and you added that patience
is requiredwhen dealing with these organisations.

That’s exactly why people contacted
you because they were hoping that the Sunday Times had the
power to help them quickly, especially as patienceis not a virtue that is easily cultivated when you haven’t got wheels.

Yours watchfully,

Jon, Consumer Watchdog and Poor Man’s Press
Ombudsman.

P.S. Please lodge this as a complaint.

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About Me

I was born in South Africa just before the Boer War whenever that was?
Started life with a golden spoon in my mouth which made eating rather difficult as a result I was under nourished as a child.
Went to a posh school where I only got moved up a class when my old man donated another sight screen for the cricket pitch.
Career prospects were dismal and I was once turned down for a job in the London sewers. "Too highly qualified;"that’s what they said.
I became a journalist when the Police Force wouldn’t have me.
Like most journos I know nothing about everything but I still write about it.
I decided to have my own blog so I wouldn't have to drink with the editor for hours on end to get my stuff published when according to my independent assessment it’s always of great news value.
My religious beliefs are: You only die once so remember, "You can’t be serious and Have Fun."
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